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News and more from under the radar 10 Trip Or Squeek Cartoon strip by Savage Pencil 19 Unofficial Channels

30 Days Of Dead 107 Out There Festivals, concerts, gigs and club listings

112 Subscribe Print, digital, downloads and CDs

29 Rewind 2016: the year in underground music 30 Releases of the year We asked our contributors to nominate their top 10 records, CDs, downloads and streams of the year, then we counted up the votes 36 Critics’ reflections Our contributors look back on 2016’s cultural highs and lows 37 The Social Network

Robert Barry on the growing importance of the collective 38 We Are The Music Makers Sam Underwood on inventor musicians 41 Justice For All Laina Dawes on race and resistance 42 The Enigma Machine Keith Fullerton Whitman on the fallen heroes of the Buchla synthesizer 45 Patronising Behaviour Rory Gibb on corporate interference 47 Columnists’ charts Our specialist critics select music that rocked their corner of the subculture, from avant rock to the outer limits 50 Artists’ reflections A cast of 2016’s most active movers and shakers shine the spotlight on their cultural year 53 Archive releases of the year Our contributors voted for their top 10 archival records, CDs, downloads and streams, and we counted them all up